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Show I PLAYGROUNDS FOR THE GROWNUPS AT OAKLAND Oakland. Cal., April 1.1. Playgrounds Play-grounds for grownups as well as for children is the latest plan of Oakland's Oak-land's playground directors, and all the new schools, of which many are planned for the near future, -will be so equipped. The plan is to build gymnasiums and to fence off suficient land at each school for a recreation ground for adults of all ages, through primarily pri-marily for the young men and worn en from IS to 21 years old Provision for room for playing various games, such aB basket ball and volley ball, as well as ordinary gymnastic apparatus appar-atus will be made nut only In the buildings but out of door3 as v,ell. I And that the older people, most of whom cannot use the playgrounds during the Jay, can have the full benefit of them at night, the grounds will be brilliantly illuminated, being made as light as the Interior of the gymnasium. , More than $20,000 was spent last year on tbc improvement of playgrounds play-grounds and recreation centers in Oakland, and a similar amount was spent in maintenance. The city now bas 15 playgrounds, and 12 more are planned. "? Already at the better equipped playgrounds the grownups vie with the children in their activities. Any afternoon women can be seen playing play-ing volley ball or basket ball, and it is nothing unusual to see a grandmother grand-mother trying to best her 17 year old granddaughter at one of the games. "They frolic like kids" says Superintendent Super-intendent of Playgrounds George Dickie, "and we want to give i'uem a chance tobriag their husbands -wltU them." |